DevOps/GitLab/GitLab Runner

Gitlab Runner released in January 2015 and written in Go offers continuous integration in GitLab, it is used to run your CI/CD jobs and send the results back to GitLab.

Configuration: /etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml. Read https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/configuration/advanced-configuration.html

Configuration allows to define

• how many jobs you can run in parallel concurrent option
• Integration with sentry
• Integration with Prometheus

• Runners cache: [runners.cache] https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/configuration/advanced-configuration.html#the-runnerscache-section

Commands

• gitlab-runner verify
• gitlab-runner list

Activities

1. Read GitLab Runner Changelog, approximately monthly releases: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
2. Read GitLab CI/CD Pipeline Configuration Reference:.gitlab-ci.yml https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/
3. Read GitLab release notes
4. Learn differences between TeamCity Agents and Gitlab runners

See also

• Git
• gitlab-ci.yml (CI/CD pipelines)